How This Provider Compares

Providers in this state and specialty were reimbursed, on average, $306 per patient in 2015. They performed about 11 services per patient. Here’s how this provider compares.

Number of Patients

1,070

Rank: 36th out of 179 providers in this state & specialty

Services Performed

9,404

Rank: 63rd out of 179 providers in this state & specialty

Avg Services Per Patient

8.8This Provider

Avg 11.3

Total Paid by Medicare

$249K

Rank: 59th out of 179 providers in this state & specialty

Avg Paid Per Patient

$233This Provider

Avg $306

Note: About 14% of this provider’s Medicare payments were for drugs administered in his office. This is intended to reimburse the provider for purchasing the drugs, plus an additional percentage for overhead.

How This Provider’s Patients Compare

Doctors often say their patients are sicker or more complex than those of their peers. The measure displayed below, used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, takes into account patients’ characteristics to estimate whether they are expected to have above-average Medicare spending. It considers patients’ age, sex, diagnoses from the past year and other factors. This provider’s score below takes into account all of his Part B patients.

This Provider's Services

This provider performed 97 different services in 2015
(57 were redacted as they were performed on less than 11 patients)

most performed service for this providermost performed service in this state & specialty

11patients got this service, 1% of his patients

1.1
average number of visits a patient made for this service
(Peers: 1.1)

$8,400.00an average of $700.00 per time performed

$2,177.28an average of $181.44 per time performed

Office Visits

Medicare reimburses office visits using a five-point scale, with five being the most intensive and costly. The chart below shows what percentage of this provider’s office visits were reimbursed at each level. A higher than average proportion of costly visits is not necessarily an indication of a problem, but it may be worth asking about.

Hover over each slice to see percentage breakdown.

John B Brinkman

Average for Urology Providers in Indiana

Notes: Medicare redacted this data for any services provided to fewer than 11 patients. The contact information listed above is the most current we have for this provider. The services listed on this page may have been delivered at a previous address or as part of a different practice.

Sources: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Plan and Provider Enumeration System, American Medical Association

Services that begin with a letter come from CMS. All other codes and descriptions of the medical procedures are from the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set, copyright 2015 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. Where practical, AMA’s consumer friendly translation of the CPT descriptor was used. ProPublica has received permission from the AMA to use these codes on this site.